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April Awareness displays: Awareness displays will be in various locations on campus such as the library, campus housing and Women's Resource Center.

April 15: Clothesline Project -- T-shirt decoration and display

April 22: National Wear Denim Day -- UTSA community members are encouraged to wear denim to enhance sexual assault awareness.

Sexual violence is a form of oppression and is linked to all other forms of oppression. In order to create a world without sexual violence, it is imperative that each of us takes a stand against all forms of oppression -- whether based on gender, age, race or ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, ability or economic class.

"In order to foster healthy and safe campus, all students must support the effort to end sexual violence every month of the year," said Jessica Muniz, LMSW, sexual assault program coordinator for UTSA Counseling Services and the Women's Resource Center.

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Statistics: Sexual assault

According to a 2003 study conducted by the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault and the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, nearly 2 million Texans have been sexually assaulted. That equals one in five women and one in 20 men in Texas. Unfortunately, fewer than 20 percent of sexual assaults are ever reported to police.

According to the National Center for Victims of Crime, nearly 5 percent of college women are sexually assaulted each year. Additionally, people ages 16-24 are raped and sexually assaulted at rates higher than any other age group.

Resources

For more information on the WRC or Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month activities, call (210) 458-4140.

For more information on preventing sexual assault, visit the WRC Web site.